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What are the themes of Chinese painting?

Figure painting is an important theme of China's traditional painting, and it is the general name of painting with figures as the main body. Landscape painting is a theme painting with landscape as the main description object, which was formed in Wei and Jin Dynasties and matured in the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, and became an important painting theme of Chinese painting. Boundary painting is a distinctive category of Chinese painting, so people call it "boundary painting" or "boundary painting" because ruler lead is needed in painting.

Mural painting is one of the oldest forms of painting. For example, in primitive society, people carved various figures on the cave walls to record expressions, which was the earliest mural. So far, many ancient murals have been preserved in China. Since the Zhou Dynasty, palaces and even tombs of all previous dynasties have been decorated with murals, which have become the witness of our ancient civilization.